Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, and Vietnam
  • 1999/305 pages

Women's Rights to House and Land:

China, Laos, and Vietnam

Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, editors
Hardcover: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-817-7
Gender disparities frequently accompany rapid socioeconomic change, as cultural traditions that protected women—even as they constrained them—collapse in the face of development reforms. This collaborative volume, involving both Asian and U.S. scholars, explores the impact of changes in women’s rights to housing and land in three socialist countries that are moving toward market economies.

The authors focus on such issues as property use and ownership, efforts to recognize women’s economic rights through development programming, poverty and women-headed households, and household bargaining. The final chapter surveys the impact of various development policies, highlighting successes and failures.

Irene Tinker is professor emerita of women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her numerous publications include Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries. Gale Summerfield is director of the office of Women in International Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is editor (with Jiaying Zhuang Howard) of Women and Economic Transition in China.

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